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CALTRANS HONORED FOR ENHANCING PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND PREVENTING WRONG-WAY DRIVING AND RUN-OFF-ROAD CRASHES

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Thursday, November 30, 2023
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) was honored today with a 2023 National Roadway Safety Award for quickly installing wrong-way driver prevention safety enhancement, high visibility crosswalks, curve warning signs, and other safety enhancements to prevent serious crashes.

Key Points: 
  • The projects were designed to protect pedestrians, head off wrong-way drivers, and prevent motorists from driving off roads on curves.
  • However, the Highway Maintenance 4 (HM-4) Safety Program is an innovative project delivery strategy that utilizes the maintenance delivery process to install cost-effective safety enhancements based on proactive safety or safety investigation recommendations.
  • This approach allows districts to implement stand-alone safety projects more quickly, delivering new signs, crosswalks, and other safety measures within a year.
  • The National Roadway Safety Awards, presented biannually since 1999, are sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration and the nonprofit Roadway Safety Foundation.

The Dawn Project publishes dangers that Tesla Full Self-Driving cars pose to school children

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Thursday, July 6, 2023
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Concurrently, The Dawn Project published the results of safety tests which revealed that Tesla Full Self-Driving would run over a child crossing the road.

Key Points: 
  • Concurrently, The Dawn Project published the results of safety tests which revealed that Tesla Full Self-Driving would run over a child crossing the road.
  • We offered Tesla the assistance they needed to reproduce the tests but their response was to brand The Dawn Project's tests as fakes.
  • It was recently reported that a self-driving Tesla ran down a child getting off a school bus in North Carolina.
  • The first danger The Dawn Project is tackling is Elon Musk's reckless deployment of unsafe Full Self-Driving cars on our roads.